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AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2000
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Olympic village mayor Graham Richardson says organisers have delivered on the promise
they made in the bid for the 2000 games: to present an Olympic village that caters to
requirements of all athletes.

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Oly Village (Sydney)

The gates to the world's largest solar powered suburb -- Sydney's Olympic village --
have been opened.

About 300 of the world's media representatives were given their first glimpse of the
village in a tour today.

It will be home to more than 15,000 athletes during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

About 10,000 staff will work at the village, which will include a retail complex, extensive
dining areas, a post office, bank and laundry facilities.

The heads of each competing nation's Olympic team will arrive at the village from August
26 with athletes scheduled to arrive from September 2.

An amusement centre within the retail complex, complete with video games and Internet
Surf Shack, will also be made available to athletes.

A dance club open between 9 pm and midnight and serving non-alcoholic beverages will
also operate, giving athletes a chance to let their hair down.

Facilities in the village along with almost a thousand dwellings will be operated by solar power.

Each dwelling will be sold after the Games and Paralympics for between $370,000 and $600,000.

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